Keeping a clean and tidy computer is generally a good idea—no one likes a crusty, speckled monitor or keyboards littered with so many crumbs the keys crunch when you press them. Thankfully, the folks at Apartment Therapy have a quick guide to cleaning your keyboard, mouse, and display in a minute every day.

Granted, when they say "clean your computer," they mean the parts you interact with the most—wiping your keyboard, mouse, and display clean of debris and residue doesn't just encourage better health, it also makes your machine a bit nicer to work with. Here's what they suggest:

Turn keyboard/ laptop upside down over the trash ~ 10s

Wipe screen with the terry cloth side of the cleaning cloth ~ 15s

Wipe screen with the microfiber side of the cleaning cloth ~ 15s

Wipe down keyboard and trackpad (or mouse) with the cleaning wipes ~ 20s

That's all there is to it. The cleaning cloth they suggest is a dual-sided microfiber cloth, one with a looser texture than the other. The whole thing only takes a minute (a little more if you're particularly messy), and can be done anytime you want a break from what you're doing, or at the beginning or end of your day.

Of course, you'll periodically need to do a deeper clean of your system, maybe grab a small keyboard vacuum designed to suck out crumbs and debris, or pop the keys off and clean between them with a cotton swab. If you have a desktop PC, don't forget to clean its interior and exterior periodically as well—not so much for health reasons, but to keep it running quietly and smoothly, cooling your components properly, and generally free of dust and debris.